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"I want a real Church of Christ, Scientist. Where cleaning glassware is a sacrament, and the stations of the cross include 'Christ's grant proposal is rejected' and 'Jesus wonders why his data make no sense.' Where the priests cast out nondemonic intrusion and the blessed dwell amongst perfectly calibrated instruments forever, amen." -- badmagic, 2004-04-22

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I set up the experiments in 5th grade (got me out of playground) scrubbed pyrex in the prep rooms in 7th,(got me brownie points and the position of fly on wall to listen to the teachers talk), and ran the weather station in 9th.(got me out of homeroom to check the relative humidity and dewpoint.) I love science.

May I be admitted to the order?

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You mean I was not the only kid whose toys included various lab stuff?

I tend to confuse docs and pharmacists by stating prescriptions in metric quantities. ('So you take 200 mg/day of this, but how many big pills and how many little pills?') My tendency to use chemical names rather than brand names throws a few people too.

Even telling my therapist I was transsexual was scientific. I gave her concrete data to support the relevant diagnosis, stated my hypothesis, then followed it with saying I could not confirm a self-diagnosis.

I am happy with Wicca though so would not be joining, but have fun.

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I had a microscope at 4, (I think Mom got it for herself.) and graduated to electronic cubes at 10 and built interesting things. I still have a thing I made with my erector set. But it's for plying yarn. I also liked Tinkertoys, Lincoln logs, and Lego. And throw in little kiddles, Barbies, and Tonka trucks. Later I liked working on my '66 VW bug. Some of us don't ever settle on a gender except out of convenience, I guess.

There are two pyrex beakers and an ehrlenmeyer flask in my cupboard next to the box of fingercots. By the smaller bowls and the dinner plates. And a friend gave me a much better microscope.

Metric is cool. Direct names of chemicals are cool. I don't know why it throws them.

Guess I'm not too horribly mismatched with my gender. I'm just me. Were I to want to be a male, it would be expensive and upset my mate. I'm okay with what I got dealt. Especially since I quit the deal with monthlies. And there's nothing that unfeminine about engineering, really. It's only considered eccentric.

Doctors don't actually want us to know anything. I get a distinct "I'm too busy to talk to you. Shut up and do what I say." kind of message a lot of the time. I play stupid and ignorant unless it's necessary to ask.

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I think I was older than 4, but when I went to go get my BS in physics, my old room contained several micrscopes, chemistry and electronics sets, 2 computers (well, they went with me), a slide rule, and various other oddments.

I learned another one recently: if I order a 90 day supply of a medicine from a pharmacy and the doc writes I should take 3 a day for 90 day, they will only say it said 270 if that is ALSO written on the prescription (I have gotten both 90 pills and 180 pills from different places).

Docs tend to do that often, look at my blog for a recent encounter with one.

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Oh dear. The docs need to be way more precise. The pharms need to listen.

The microscopes went to good homes.

Blessed be.

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Oh and in college, when I cannulated a rat's hypothalamus, the TA handed me one a mm. too long, so when I injected the angiotensin, he did not drink. I did the histology. I had a friend in the department whom looked my work over. My placement was perfect. At least I got to find out why my data was screwy.

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I can just see the revised Bible... And Satan tempted Eve with the promise of a published article, if she would only eat of the Tree of Falsified Data.

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You mean corrected data, right? :-)

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Ah yes, corrected data. Much more appealing than "flat-out lies". :)

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ObFilk: Dr. Jane's song "Drivel"

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yes!

ok, not so much with the christ bit, personally, but...

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It was a pretty standard exercise. 20 of us were doing it. I was just frustrated and puzzled that my data were more screwy than others'. I'm not used to that. I did not skew them in my report on the study.

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See also _Round the Bend_, by Nevil Shute. There's less pervasive racism than in some of Shute's older work, but there are some deeply objectionable bits mixed in with the admirable concept of trying to approach holiness from an engineering perspective. I recommend the book, for people who can see an offensive term, or an offensive idea, and look beyond it.

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